Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Climate change

Lincoln Fire & Rescue has applied for reaccreditation by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International, CFAI. As part of the process, the Commission peer assessment team to applicant agencies, composed of specially-trainged professionals from other agencies around the country.

Our team arrived in Lincoln on Sunday. The four members are from El Paso, TX; Ft. Collins, CO; Durham, NC; and Winter Park, FL. With the exception of our colleague from Colorado, this is a decidedly warm weather team. They arrived in Lincoln on Sunday, when the high temperature was an unseasonable mild 56 degrees. They awoke Monday to a balmy four degrees, and a wild child hovering around ten below. It got a bit cooler this morning, presently negative eight.

We're rather accustomed to such fluctuations here in the middle of the continent, but it's a bit of a shock to the uninitiated. Somebody described it to the team thusly: "It's a dry cold." I'll still take a couple months of sub-freezing daily lows to the months of oppressive humidity of Florida and North Carolina, personally. Our shivering guests will have a good story about the climate change they endure when they return to the tropics on Thursday.

3 comments:

Steve said...

I can't wait for Ken Shimek to start telling us what the expected wild child is for tomorrow. He's a trainged meteorologist, but I think he's open to new ways.

Anonymous said...

Let's not forget how quickly bitterly cold wind chill clears out the downtown sidewalks after bar break...

Mark said...

80 degrees and a dry heat in AZ